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Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:03:52 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=250818#comment-6827072[…] As was the case with his immigration comments, Paul responded to the conservative backlash with even more confusing spin that tried to cover both sides of the fence. His adviser told an anti-choice website that Paul remains “100 percent pro-life” — saying that “the health of the mother” should not be an exemption — though he has switched his position on emergency contraception, and does not address an exemption for rape victims. As you can imagine, some social conservatives remain unconvinced. […]
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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:55:59 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=250818#comment-6821619

95% of abortions are pure adulterated convenience. Oppose the 5% to no end and what tiny chance you have to end the 95% goes bye-bye, which means millions more babies dead.

MelonCollie on March 22, 2013 at 12:02 AM

The only ones that are not convenience are the ones where both the mother and child are certain to die unless the child is terminated. That is the only time that there is no good choice, but just the bad choice to abort the child and hope the mother survives. Thus saving life.

If the mother’s life is at risk, but the child can be delivered alive, the child should have precedence.

If a person supports a women’s right to murder an unborn baby conceived through rape…then they’re not really anti-abortion.

annoyinglittletwerp on March 21, 2013 at 8:51 PM

Stuff it, fool. Some of us know the difference between saying “why sure you can abort your baby because it’s inconvenient” and saying “Yes you had a horrible thing happen to you, I urge you not to punish the baby too, but ultimately the choices is between you and whatever god you worship.”

95% of abortions are pure adulterated convenience. Oppose the 5% to no end and what tiny chance you have to end the 95% goes bye-bye, which means millions more babies dead.

My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.

My take away from most encounters with internet atheists is that they are illogical flamethrowers who have a compulsive need to torch entire fields of strawmen to avoid anything that might be called a rational debate.

They are the ultimate irrationalists, bitterly clinging to their personal values they thought of perhaps that morning, perhaps over time, and believing that their mere denial of God’s existence is sufficient to prove their rationality in spite of all demonstrative evidence to the contrary.

They are rudderless, evasive, and more judgmental than any single other group of people I have ever had discussions with – and the worst part is their foundations and thought processes are invariably the weakest.

Friend turned me on to them in high school, and Masque blew me away. I was dating a girl who would become a renowned classical singer, and she was blown away (musicianship). To this day, no one talks about them much, but you can’t name many ensembles who could do what they did.

My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.

DRayRaven on March 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM

You’re logically incoherent. Yes, abortion ends a life. I would fully expect that protecting life IS one of the functions of government. As for marriage, it was Jesus Himself who said, “Have ye not read, that he which made them from the beginning made them male and female? And said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh. Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.

DRayRaven on March 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM

My take away from most encounters with internet atheists is that they are illogical flamethrowers who have a compulsive need to torch entire fields of strawmen to avoid anything that might be called a rational debate.

They are the ultimate irrationalists, bitterly clinging to their personal values they thought of perhaps that morning, perhaps over time, and believing that their mere denial of God’s existence is sufficient to prove their rationality in spite of all demonstrative evidence to the contrary.

They are rudderless, evasive, and more judgmental than any single other group of people I have ever had discussions with – and the worst part is their foundations and thought processes are invariably the weakest.

Thank you. You don’t have to be a Christian to realize how superior Judeo-Christian morals are to everything else (especially actual Sharia, which Armin needs to experience). Or how absurd it is to think that concepts of morality can basically be pulled out of a hat, much less run a solid and free nation based on said morals.

Disorder does not form itself into order, stable families are not the invention of mere tradition, and without protecting the rights of life and liberty, the pursuit of happiness is a joke.

My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.

DRayRaven on March 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM

As an atheist and social conservative, I can say right now that you’re wrong about my beliefs regarding Jesus. But do I think that the government has a role in abortion (protecting the life of an innocent child), who other people sleep with (stopping prostitutes, incest, pedophilia, etc…) and marry (which exists for procreation)? You betcha.

My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.

DRayRaven on March 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM

I think you can do better than this if you try. Come on, give it another try.

Once every year or so I play it straight, but everyone assumes I’m being sarcastic. Goes with the territory.

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:56:13 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=250818#comment-6819771My take away from this thread is that social conservatives here believe Jesus thinks they should get in everyone’s faces about whether women can have abortions and who other people sleep with and marry, but that whole “turn the other cheek” thing? Not so much. Name=calling and insults are OK, too.
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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:46:57 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=250818#comment-6819745

Suddenly, over the past three days, he’s gotten verrrry hazy about immigration terminology and now abortion terminology — coincidentally, two issues that will be especially difficult when trying to split the difference between conservatives and libertarians in 2016. Is his new strategy to be just vague enough so that both sides can interpret his rhetoric as essentially agreeing with their position?

Yes. And since it’s so transparent, it won’t work. You can’t please everybody, and the more you try the more you’ll alienate everybody (see: Romney, Mitt).

He does talk about his experiences as a physician, but if all he’s saying is that an exception for the life of the mother would apply to many different circumstances, well, we all already knew that. Everyone understands that pregnancy potentially can cause different life-threatening complications. Why not simply say, “Yeah, exception for the life of the mother” and leave it at that?

Because that would be the smart move, and if there’s one thing we’ve seen from GOP politicians, it’s that they are apparently genetically incapable of speaking coherently on social issues. Remember Herman Cain’s “I want to make it illegal, but I don’t want the government involved” schtick?

Christian social “conservatives” on this site have variously wished terminal cancer and now a hanging on me, and I’m the unreasonable one here. Go figure.

Armin Tamzarian on March 21, 2013 at 4:47 PM

Which is really weird considering your such a nice and amiable guy, right? I mean, aside from the ‘American Taliban’, faith-denigrating, other bomb-throwing and general blaming the woes of the world on them, of course – you’re a real peach of a fellow!